Based on the author's
experiences of traveling between two unique cultures on different
continents, and of living under both democratic and totalitarian
regimes,
The Room with Closets
is a fascinating and innovative volume of short stories. These tales,
all tied together by common threads, travel the literary landscape from
grim political reality to joyous flights of fantasy and humor.
Join Ignacio José Conti, his extended family, and his friends to obtain
a deeper understanding of life, love, and human nature. There is
Margarita, and the comical reminders of death that greet her on the
first morning of her honeymoon; the Spanish shepherd, Ramón Reyes, who
changes identities in order to sail to the New World; and three diverse
Argentines suffering the nightmare of trying to obtain a passport from
their fascist government.
There is the room with closets, and its locked door that mysteriously
opens by itself; the youth Batata, who hijacks a homemade
"moto-copter," seeing the "Virgin of Carmen" during his flight; and
Marcos Bardán, a student of quantum physics and member of the
underground, who discovers how to cheat death (but not life).
One of the book's stories, "Marcos Bardán," was published under the
title "The Dead Cat: Schrödinger's Experiment" in the
Review of Art, Literature, Philosophy, and
the Humanities (August 2006) and can be read at
http://www.ralphmag.org/EC/dead-cat.html. A reviewer of the book
has written:
"An unforgettable portrait of human
struggle, survival, and wry insight."
Midwest
Book Review, September
2006
Don't miss this volume of thirteen stories from another essential Latin
American writer.
A. Pablo Iannone was
born and raised in Argentina, and left his homeland as a result of
political upheaval while a university student. He teaches
philosophy at Central Connecticut State University, and has published
eight books, including Philosophy as Diplomacy, Philosophical Ecologies, and Dictionary of World Philosophy,
in addition to several short stories and a book of poetry in Spanish, Astérida.
